The Croods #1 On Home Video

'The Croods' Debuts at No. 1 on Home Video Sales Chart

4:53 PM PDT 10/9/2013 by Thomas K. Arnold/The Hollywood
Reporter

The animated blockbuster The Croods, from DreamWorks, was the
top-selling disc of the week ending Oct. 6.

The comic tale of a Stone Age family, distributed by 20th Century Fox,
debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen VideoScan’s First Alert sales chart, which tracks
overall disc sales, DVD and Blu-ray Disc combined.The Croods, the second-highest-grossing original DreamWorks
Animation film ever, opened theatrically in March and went on to earn $187.2
million in U.S. theaters -- and a whopping $585 million worldwide. It was
hailed by critics as the most original and funniest animated film of the year
and is said to be a front-runner for the Best Animated Oscar. A sequel and TV
series are already in development.